Easy color and highlighting form the editing window Easy font selection at the top of the editing window Floating font panel that makes it easy to choose fonts, and lets you set up font collections of your favorite fonts. New rows added automatically when tabbing from last row Can increase a column by dragging from any point in the verticle line There is not a move up or move down but that hasn't been too much of a hindrance. When adding buttons to the toolbar when customizing, there is an Add after and Add before. I haven't experimented with this but I think it will be a very handy feature. Can specify the number of backup copies to make. A full page is readable from a standard MacBook's resolution. Ability to set to many different kinds of formats - useful. Option to open files from previous session ![]() I used it to take notes tonight for a non-profit meeting and it worked very well for that. All of the essential features are quickly accessible and well thought out. ![]() The efficiencies of the program don't end there. Apple's own word processor Pages takes a lot longer, and Microsoft Word 2008 seems to take forever. Mariner Write opens in one or two seconds on my MacBook 2.2Ghz. It's a breath of fresh air, in the Mac world, to have a word processor open quickly. The only things that I don't like are related to the interface design, for example the round beveled look of the ruler and tools section is very outdated now, a boring all-grey mix of alien spaceship ("aqua"-style) or early iTunes versions ("metal"-style).īut besides that Mellel has the best combination of features for me, so my money goes to them. No soft hyphen! So only usable for some very short texts, best freeware I've seen for many many years - of course I keep an eye on it) ![]() Bean (really fanstatic freeware, but based on Apples buggy text-engine. AbiWord (Many bugs and no updates the last 2 years, I think they don't support the Mac anymore) Papyrus (very ugly, carbon, no real testdrive possible - crippled trial version, but some interesting features - I keep an eye on it) but I exspect the next versions will be much better) Pages (Again no soft hyphen!, occasionally crashes and after a while gets very slow. Mariner Write (really bad font display/spacing for many years now, only english, carbon - so it needs to be rewritten for future OSX releases, will they do that? I'm unsure.) Nisus (Nearest competitor but Nisus doesn't support soft hyphen!, I simply cannot work without soft hyphen.), for me Neo Office is the best of these beasts.) Mellel is not bloated like all the "Office" suites (Neo, OO, MS, are all to slow. The last days I've tested many word processors and I found Mellel to be the best so far, There are good options on the Mac platform besides the huge, feature-intensive office suites (though these are still essential in some situations). The only way to choose the best word processor for your use is to try what's out there. Also, if you use Spell Catcher, Mellel will not allow automatic replacement, which can create issues with bulleted lists since Spell Catcher has to backspace to make corrections. It's also a fine word processor, and contains more advance features, though Mariner Write is still more streamlined. I've noticed that Mellel has come up a lot on this page. This is a minor issue in the end, and no software is perfect. With some fonts, you end up with the occasional ugly gap between letters. My only real complaint is something that's come up several times on this page: improper spacing of characters. It's quick to open and respond, and its essential features for my purposes are more easily accessible and intuitive than in any other word processor I've tried. ![]() For my needs-taking class notes and writing short and medium-length papers-Mariner Write achieves the perfect balance of features and weight. Ultimately, what word processor is best comes down to personal preference and needs there will never be a definitive end to this debate.
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